Reverend Norton Hosts Christmas Caroling and Church Gifts
In Richmond and nearby towns, Reverend and Mrs. Lester Norton received church gifts from several societies including a lamp and front curtains. Carolers toured the town on Christmas Eve. Charles Wheeler was reelected Master of Progressive Orange with a slate of officers. A New Year party and various visits wrap the local community updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester R. Norton
Baptist Ladies Aid Society
World Wide Guild
Young Peoples Society
Stanley Griffin
Charles Wheeler
Progressive Orange
James Jones
Bertha Gray
Arthur Packard
Marshall White
Grace Thompson
Walter Knight
Lucy Tarr
Erland Curtis
Ceres
Florence Wheeler
Pomona
Laura Baker
Flora
Eva Libby
Laurelle Priest
Charles Thompson
Howard Knight
Richmond Ideal Home Corner Club
D. of A. V. Hall
Willard G. Norton
Chester
Ralph Norton
Gorham
William Oakes
Rochester
N. Y
Edward Favor
Jacqueline
George Skinner
Wren Nursing Home
Carrie Groves
Earl Castner
Bangor
Charles Sylvester
Joseph Morton
Winthrop
Theodore Wensel
Cambridge
Mass
Alfred Wensel
Margaret McKenna
Nassau College
Dorothy McKenna
Boston University
Georgia Bickford
Madelyn Yeaton
Stanley Farley
South Lancaster
Grace Lancaster
Everett
Harold Lancaster
Edith Knight
Alvina Knight
Albion Shaw
Janice
Presque Isle
Wilbur Gilpatrick
Paul Jack
Falmouth
Edward Jack
Perfect attendance at the Dike School by grade list
A Dike school report lists pupils with perfect attendance for the 15 week term before Christmas. The roll includes multiple students per grade from junior primary to grade seven, such as Gayle Fitzgerald, Richard Arsenault, Barbara Briggs, Paul MacEee, Arthur Michalos, and many others across grades one through seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dike School
Gayle Fitzgerald
Richard Arsenault
Robert Arsenault
Barbara Briggs
Paul Mac Eee
Arthur Michalos
Sally Footer
William Linnell
Miriam Mitchell
Robert Thurston
James Arsenault
Lawrence Allen
Roberta Barter
William Briggs
Helen Cook
Julia Doughty
James Jones
Richard MacDonald
Edwin Pert
Gordon Pinkham
Donald Savage
Willard Thurston
Rodney Wright
Bernice Bettis
Joan Bradford
Eliza Estabrooks
Pauline Holmsen
Carl Langbehn
Mary Lemont
Helen Liakopoulos
Beverly van Buren
Edmund Arsenault
Dean Cook
Donald Footer
Floyd Goding
Ruth Green
Raymond Jones
Margaret Lenfest
Barbara Poulos
Marilyn McElman
Emery Mitchell
Perleston Pert
Joseph Saint
William Tait
Dawn Avery
Hazel Estabrooks
John Hayward
Dorothy Holmes
Knud Holmson
Arline James
Doris Lang
Betty Moore
Paul Ouelette
Richard Perry
Catherine Pert
Leland Plummer
Raymond Powers
Lewis Young
Warren Beardsley
Arthur Cook
Walter Elliott
Laura Harnish
Leroy James
Muriel Kenderdine
Colin Mitchell
Roger Pinkham
Barbara Preney
Elwood Robbins
Dana Snell
Maynard Stevens
Sentimental Novel in America Volume Reviewed
Herbert Ross Brown’s The Sentimental Novel in America 1789 1860 from Duke University Press surveys how sentimental fiction shaped early American literature. The study traces authors from Richardson to Stowe, notes female readers’ influence, and explains the era’s social and literary shifts through lively, informative essays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Herbert Ross Brown
Brunswick
Bowdoin College
Duke University Press
Duncan Phyfe
Samuel Richardson
Pamela
London
Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy
Hannah Webster Foster
Sarah J. Hale
Godey
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Second earthquake shakes Georgetown in a week
A tremor lasting just over four minutes rattled Georgetown at 8 44 a m. Residents near the water were more affected while those higher up reported minor impacts as Christmas decorations trembled. The recent weather included much rain and fog with snow nearly gone and little ice on the roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown
Old Seguin
First Baptist Church
Santa Claus
Adolph Spear
Zorach
Robinhood
Life
New York
Local No 4 CIO-Election Unlikely at Bath Iron Works
A senior adviser said no third election is likely for Local No 4 of the CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers at Bath Iron Works. He expects a clean, paid membership vote leading to recognition of the union as the bargaining agent. Local No 4’s two past elections ended in defeat, highlighting ongoing organizational tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cio-Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
Bath Iron Works Corp
CIO
Iron Works
Telephone Girls at Annual Christmas Party
The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company business office and traffic department held their annual Christmas party in the retiring room Monday evening with gifts exchanged and a social hour. Attendees included numerous staff members led by Miss Elizabeth P. McKay and Miss Eleanor S. McAllister among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Tel
Tel. Co
Elizabeth P. McKay
Eleanor S. McAllister
Annie E. Bickle
Rachel F. Potter
Lera D. Burns
Helen M. Lesier
Doris L. Crocker
Sadie C. Dowling
Patricia A. Whitehouse
Helen E. Hartwell
Dolly M.,goodwin
Edith E. Estabrooks
R. Elizabeth Footer
Edith G. Small
Mary E. Perkins
Grace M. Joy
Muriel V. Grace
Mary Tourtillotte
Arline Gadd
Ferne Griffin
Frances Ginty
Barbara Haley
Phyllis Pinkham
Bertram Willis
Carroll E. Davis
Kerwin B. Butcher
Arthur G. Small
Richard H. Haskell
Charles A. D'Arcy
Personal notes on misses Perkins and Haskell
Miss Eunice Perkins resumes street life after several days with friends in Boston. Miss Josephine Haskell left Sunday for New York after the Christmas holidays with her mother Mrs Ernest Haskell of West Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eunice Perkins
Boston
Josephine Haskell
New York
Ernest Haskell
West Point
Newell answers critics over Bath Iron Works bonus
President William S. Newell released a memorandum explaining that a 6 cent per hour raise will yield over 150 dollars per worker in 1941, far more than the 10 to 50 dollar range if a prior bonus plan had been used, and that management may extend a general 1941 bonus distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Pres
William S. Newell
Pres. Newell
Pres Newell
W.S. Newell
Pilgrim Fellowship Hosts Joke Tree Event
Central church parish house hosts Pilgrim Fellowship meeting after a Sunday worship led by Donald McKellar. College students present include David Alkazin Jr, Betty Swanton, Edward Butterfield, Clifton Nickerson. Next week’s gathering at Winter Street church features marimbaphone music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Pilgrim Fellowship
Central Church Parish House
Donald McKellar
David Y. Alkazin, Jr
Bently School of Accounting
Boston
Betty Swanton
Gorham Normal School
Edward Butterfield
William and Mary College
Clifton Nickerson
University of Maine
Barbara L. Kenney
Winter Street
Jeanette
Dorothy Williams
William Marshall
Marilyn Cummings
Pauline Nickerson
Central Parish House
New Skowhegan Playground Planned At East Front Street
The Coburn Heirs and Elin W Page plan a new playground south of the Star Filling Station on East Front Street in Skowhegan. The ten lots extend to Hathaway Street and join the existing Jewett Street playgrounds, developed with NYA workers. The site comes from the old Pratt farm once owned by the Coburn Heirs for about 30 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coburn
Elin W. Page
Skowhegan
Star
East Front Street
Hathaway Street
Jewett Street
N.Y.A
Pratt Farm
Miss Ida Babineau’s Hanover Wedding Morning Gifts
Thursday morning in honor of her upcoming marriage, Miss Ida Babineau of Hanover delivered milk to town customers and found attached to each empty bottle a variety of miscellaneous gifts and felicitations from well wishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Babineau
Hanover
Five Islands Social Roundup Recaps Holidays and Travel
Charles Moore led the Young Peoples meeting at Five Islands from Bath returning home from Providence Bible Institute for holidays. Irving Hanna came home from a Portland hospital after a tonsil and adenoid operation. Jig-saw puzzles arrived for the Library from Mrs. C. F. Knight of Waterbury Conn. Miss C. H. Stevens and Miss Katharine Pendergast sail to Daytona Beach after a Boston stop. Several families and individuals visit or travel between Bath, Boston, Philadelphia, and various New England towns for Christmas and holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Moore
Bath
Young Peoples Meeting
Mr. Moore
Wilson Moore
Providence Bible Institute
Providence
R. I
Irving Hanna
Portland
C. F. Knight
Waterbury
Francis Bacon
South Sudbury
Mass
Bacon
L. H. Rowe
Basil MacMahan
Cambridge
Ellsworth Pinkham
Norman Harley
Sylvia
Suncook
N. H
Card of Thanks from the Hanna Family in Five Islands
We thank friends and neighbors for kindnesses during the illness and death of our loved one. Mrs Lulu Hanna and family George Hanna Clinton Hanna Mrs Wallace Pierce Five Islands Me Jan 2 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu Hanna
George Hanna
Clinton Hanna
Wallace Pierce
Five Islands
Gift with history presented president at Les Camarades
Miss Alice N. Magoun presented Allan H. Ramsay, president, with a framed piece of the gold tapestry curtain from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. The curtain opened in 1905 for La Gioconda with a famous cast and last appeared in 1940 for Rossini’s Barber of Seville. The gift marked the tenth anniversary of Les Camarades, Maine’s only club to aid the Met’s spring appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice N. Magoun
Allan H. Ramsay
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
la Gioconda
Nordica
Homer
Caruso
Scotti
Plancon
Mr. Ramsay
Pons
Martini
Pinza
Rossini
Les Camarades
Maine
Metropolitan
Local News Briefs from Boston and Nearby Visits
Eugene Free returns to Boston after several days with friends. Bliss Doris Kingsbury and Rhoda Kutz head to Boston for a few days, staying at the Hotel Touraine. James A. McLellan offered Christmas music at the Old Ladies' Home, visiting Portland. Natalie Perkins returns from a week with sister in Portsmouth. Lovell family visitors from Brockton with Rev. and Mrs Tubbs. Ruth Watson back from Christmas at Washington Street. Loyall F. Sewall arrives from New York to await Governor Sumner Sewall’s inauguration in Augusta. Hafkenschiel studies at Johns Hopkins after a summer at Small Point Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Free
Boston
Bliss Doris Kingsbury
Rhoda Kutz
Touraine
James A. McLellan
Old Ladies’ Home
Portland
Natalie Perkins
Middle Street
J. Franklin Farnham
N. H
Frederick A. Lovell, Jr
Brockton
Mass
Loyall F. Sewall
New York
Arthur Sewall 2d
Washington Street
December Weather Compared To Last Year
December showed more rain and less snow than the prior year. Snowfall was about ten inches versus twelve, and temperatures dipped to eight below zero on December 4. There were 13 freezing or warmer mornings versus ten last year, with 18 fair days compared with 20. Ice and snow were light on roads by month end, though earlier icy travel occurred.
Rain causes heavy losses to smelt camps along Whiskeag creek
Rain over several days wrecked smelt camps along Whiskeag creek with 11 camps reported lost near Ward's shore north of Bean Rock. One camp from Arrowsic Gut was swept away by floe into Sasanoa then Hell's Gate. Several crews saved remaining camps as ice broke, with most removals completed after Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward's
Bean Rock
Arrowsic
Sasanoa
Hell's Gate
Mild Weather Halts Work On Water Main
Relaying of the auxiliary water main to Bath from Thompson's Brook along New Meadows Lake is delayed by mild weather. Crews cut a channel through ice and lower pipe using derricks with divers working in eight to nine feet of water. Two to three very cold nights are needed to refreeze the ice enough to support workers and equipment. About 85 feet of pipe has been laid. water service remains uninterrupted as gates hold the supply from Lake Nequasset and Thompson's Brook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Thompson's Brook
New Meadows Lake
Bath Water District
Libby
West Bath
Lake Nequasset
Courageous Blooms and Club Flight Notes
A bouquet of pansies was picked Tuesday morning by David Y. Alkazin at 1284 Washington Street. The Rockland Flying Club, organized in August, now has 16 members using Curtiss airport facilities at Holmes Street and Broadway and owning a Cub sport two seater. The group’s plane has skis but none used yet. most members hold student solo permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Y. Alkazin
Washington Street
Rockland Flying Club
Curtiss Airport
Holmes Street
Broadway
Funeral for Rockland artist William P Burpee
The funeral of William P Burpee, a Rockland artist, was held beneath the baptistry painting he created titled A Vision of the Jordan in the First Baptist Church. He was 94 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Burpee
Rockland
First Baptist Church
Jordan
Mr. Burpee
Obituary Capt Proctor A Hagan 86 retired mariner
Capt Proctor A Hagan 86 died Sunday at the Old Folks Home after a year of feeble health and three months bedridden. A native of Arrowsic he began seafaring at age 12 and captained schooners including the Frances M and Miriam Landis. The latter vessel wrecked on the Algerian coast and his wife accompanied him. He retired in 1922 and is survived by his wife four stepsons one brother a nephew and a niece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Proctor A. Hagan
Hagan
Arrowsic
John
Betsy Blagdon Hagan
Frances M
Miriam Landis
Elbridge Hagan
Baltimore
Wilbur Hagan
Skowhegan
Melvin Comeau
Bath
Mrs Mary Savage Dies After Illness in Bath Home
Mrs. Mary Savage widow of Ed ward Savage of Cambridge Massachusetts died Monday morning after a long illness in the Old Folks Home. A Bath native daughter of Asa and Martha Hodgkins she taught at Weeks Street Grammar before marriage. She lived near Boston most of life and returned to Bath five years ago entering the Home a year later. Surviving relatives include nephew W Percy Hodgkins Lynn and three Bath nieces. Funeral conducted Tuesday afternoon at Curtis funeral home with burial in Cambridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Savage
Edward Savage
Cambridge
Mass
Bath
Asa
Martha Cunningham Hodgkins
Old Bath High School
Weeks Street
Boston
W. Percy Hodgkins
Lynn
Harry W. Crosman
John H. Hunt
Guy Sprague
Frederick P. Moffatt
Curtis Funeral Home
Edward A Rhines A Beloved Narrow Gauge Conductor
Edward A Rhines aged 78 died Thursday afternoon in Winthrop Massachusetts He longtime conductor on the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn narrow gauge railroad was famed for his sunny disposition and courtesy He spent summers at his sister in law Mrs Henry C Wright 945 Washington Street The funeral was held Friday afternoon at his Winthrop home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. Rhines
Winthrop
Mass
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
East Boston
Mr. Rhines
Henry C. Wright
Washington Street
Mrs Mary S Thompson Dies at 83 in Rockland
Mrs Mary Susan Thompson 83 formerly of Bath died December 25 in Rockland. She leaves two sisters Mrs Alice Johnson of Arlington Mass and Mrs Eva Beebee of New Haven Conn. Funeral was Friday at 2 p.m. at Russell's Funeral Home Rockland with burial in Sea View Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
Rockland
Mary Susan Thompson
Bath
Alice Johnson
Arlington
Mass
Eva Beebee
New Haven
Mrs Rose Colby Dies at 78 in Bath Memorial Hospital
Rose Colby age 78 wife of Edgar Colby of Basin Road Phippsburg died Thursday at Bath Memorial Hospital. Funeral arrangements not yet announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Colby
Edgar Colby
Basin Road
Phippsburg
Bath Memorial Hospital
Miss Myrna Avery Funeral Held at Mayo Residence
The funeral for Miss Myrna M. Avery, noted musician, who died December 24, was Thursday afternoon at the Arthur F. Mayo funeral residence on High street. Dr. David L. Wilson officiated. Bearers were John H. Grindell, Francis McPherson, Reginald Stacy, and Hiram T. Stevens. Burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrna M. Avery
Arthur F. Mayo
High Street
David L. Wilson
John H. Grindell
Francis McPherson
Reginald Stacy
Hiram T. Stevens
Oak Grove
Funeral for Capt Proctor A Hagan at Curtis Home
The funeral of Capt Proctor A. Hagan, longtime resident at the Old Folks Home, was held Tuesday afternoon at Curtis funeral home. Rev. Joseph O. Purdue officiated. Bearers were Charles T. Henderson, Everett G. Lemont, Fred B. and William A. Kittridge. Burial followed in Oak Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Proctor A. Hagan
Old Folks Home
Curtis Funeral Home
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street Church
Charles T. Henderson
Everett G. Lemont
Fred B
William A. Kittridge
Oak Grove
Mrs. Savage Funeral Held in Cambridge Massachusetts
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Savage widow of Edward Savage of Cambridge Massachusetts was held Tuesday afternoon at Curtis funeral home with Rev. Frederick P. Moffatt officiating. Burial is planned Wednesday in Mount Auburn cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Savage
Edward Savage
Cambridge
Mass
Curtis Funeral Home
Frederick P. Moffatt
Corliss Street
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Portland Visit By Rev Raymond Putnam Pastor
Rev. Raymond G. Putnam, pastor of Central church, was a Tuesday visitor in Portland, meeting local church members and sharing in brief discussions during his visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond G. Putnam
Central Church
Portland
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Richmond
Leighton Gardner, Sr
Leighton, Jr
DIKE
Herbert R. Brown
Bowdoin
Merrill
Emma Billings
Dorothy Stuart
Howard Heald
Gilbert Gunnell
Waltham
Thomas N. Williams
West Georgetown
Howard Fletcher
Belmont
Roscoe P. Todd
Warren
Newell
Pilgrim Fellowship
Allan H. Ramsey
Courageous
Capt
Proctor Hagan
Mariner
Mary S. Thompson
Mrs. Rose Colby
Miss Avery
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston
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